“At the moment just before Mr. Crutcher (was) simultaneously shot once by Officer Shelby (right) and tased by Officer Tyler Turnbough (left), Mr. Crutcher’s hand is clearly down near his waist near the right front pants pocket area,” Owens wrote. “This is when both officers decided to discharge respective weapons.”

The second false narrative concerned the belief that there had been no legitimate reason for the Tulsa police officers to stop Crutcher in the first place. The problem was that they didn’t need to stop him; he had in effect stopped himself.

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According to local station KJRH, around 7:40 that evening the police received a 911 call about an abandoned vehicle in the middle of the road. The caller claimed that when he tried to approach the driver, the driver said that he thought his car was about to blow up.

The caller also said this: “Yeah, I think he’s smoking something.”

Speaking with KOTV, officer Jeanne Mackenzie later explained what happened when the police arrived on the scene.

“As they approached the vehicle, a black male started towards them,” she said. “They asked him to show his hands. He refused to follow commands given by the officers. They continued to talk to him.”

“He continued not to listen, not follow any commands,” she added. “As they got closer to the vehicle, he reached inside the vehicle and at that time there was a Taser deployment, and then a short time later there was one shot fired.”

Why, though, had Crutcher (who reports revealed was an ex-con) been acting so erratic and non-cooperative? Possibly because he may have been high on PCP, according to the New York Daily News, which reported that a vial of PCP was found in his vehicle.